Year Three and After -
Free Sheet Music for Piano!

In year three and after, the free sheet music for piano on this site stretches pianists' abilities.  

Storybook Love - from The Princess Bride

More technique is required, with the use of chord inversions, thicker textures in the melodies, and stretched hand positions.  

Additionally, note reading strays far outside the two octaves around Middle C.  

While much of this page's music is aimed at older students, some of it is easy enough for younger children who have been with you for a while.

A Scottish song, Ae Fond Kiss, for piano and voice

Ae Fond Kiss, vocal score & piano music

A poem by Scottish poet Robert Burns.

A tender love song, saying farewell.

Lord of the Rings piano music

Aniron, Aragorn and Arwen's Theme

This is a beautiful song that sounds elvish in its harp-like restraint.  

Full of broken chords.  Lovely.

The Beatitudes song sheet music

The Beatitudes song

This song of the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-12 in the Bible) includes all the words of the KJV (King James Version).

Guitar tabs and a lead sheet, also.

This is not particularly easy, but it is beautiful and sing-able, and the words are solace to the heart!

Black Beauty movie sheet music

Black Beauty movie sheet music

An amazingly pretty theme, with a left hand pattern that allows students to practice shaping the rise and fall of phrases.

A few right hand ornaments add style to the melody.

Piano music Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair

Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair

What an evocative song this is!

The first page is slow (as you can see), but the second & third pages change pace.

Your students may really love this piece.

Braveheart soundtrack sheet music

Braveheart soundtrack music

Perhaps the most evocative film music ever.  This piece starts off quietly, then builds to running left hand chords and octaves in the right hand melody.

Don't be put off by the key signature... this 5-page arrangement is also available in the key of F.

Irish melody for piano

Brian Boru's March

A hypnotic melody with a repetitious right hand and left hand.  

Reading the high notes - and the bass clef notes - is perhaps the biggest initial challenge of this lovely piece.

The Cat Came Back lyrics and sheet music.

Cat Came Back lyrics and music

There are a lot of ways to use this fun song with the silly lyrics.

You don't have to be tied to the left hand chords as written... my students like mixing up the descending single-note bass line with the triad chords.

The Colorado Trail, a song for voice and piano, the sheet music

Colorado Trail song

Yes, this is a cowboy song!

Some of your students will love this.  

It is very short, but very pretty.

Three versions in several keys:

  • with guitar tabs
  • with piano accompaniment
  • as a vocal duet


De Boself

De Boself, scary music!

This little piece is a simplified arrangement of the original by T. Van Oesten.  It does have a bit of an ominous sound!

Down to the River to Pray piano arrangement key of F

Down to the River to Pray sheet music

Fun to sing & play alone, or in a group!

Emma, a Jane Austen Emma movie tribute, piano sheet music

Emma, a Jane Austen "Emma" movie tribute

This is very lovely, and parents love it.

Due to the right hand rhythms, this piece is not very easy for early intermediate, in spite of the repetitious chord patterns.  

But it is very much worth the effort!

Piano and voice sheet music for Esther, the story of Queen Esther in the Bible

Esther - the story of Queen Esther in the Bible

Looking for a "big work" for your musical group?  Perhaps something akin to a musical or light opera, but way less labor-intensive?

Or maybe your girls want to sing a Bible story that's not about a guy!

If perhaps you have a student who just loves a good story, told with drama, then check out this 57-page musical retelling of the story of Esther, a true-life hero in her day!

Frederic Chopin's famous Funeral March, for piano.

Funeral March, scary Halloween music!

A famous and ominous melody.

There are several arrangements on this page, including a very easy one.

Traditional Celtic music - listen to the accompanying videos this piano arrangement emulates

Gaelic Melody, traditional Celtic music

Listen to the videos on this page - there are very few melodies as lovely as this one!  

Now with an easier piano arrangement, in the key of Am!

Goober Peas, a fun piano song about peanuts

Goober Peas, easy piano songs for kids

Several versions of Goober Peas on this page.

This is a fun OLD song from the American south, about eating peanuts!


Harp Ballad, a lovely piano piece

Harp Ballad printable sheet music for piano

This is an important piece in my studio, for beginning with big left hand broken chords.

When students start gaining the coordination to use broken chords, they are ready for this amazing piece.

And, it's pretty too!


House of the Rising Sun chords & melody for piano

House of the Rising Sun chords and lyrics

Several arrangements of this famous piece on this page. 

Lyrics on page two.



I Love You, Lord sheet music

I Love You, Lord sheet music

A pretty Christian song which starts with a rhythmic chord accompaniment that changes to beautiful broken chords on the repeat.

Piano sheet music In the Hall of the Mountain King

In the Hall of the Mountain King sheet music

This famous music is from Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite," from which we also have the well-known "Morning Song."

This is an exciting arrangement!

Irish Washerwoman piano music

Irish Washerwoman 

Depending on the age of your student, this song will be a challenge with its rapidly moving left hand and small chord inversions (page 2), or, if your student is older, it will be a refreshing break from harder music, while retaining a few challenges.  Either way, this is a fun piece of music!

An Irish melody for piano, with lovely left hand chords.

Keegan's Waltz Irish piano sheet music

Another very beautiful piece.  

This has a singable melody and flowing left hand chords.

This is the kind of piece that students can dwell in, imaginatively.



Lavender's Blue, a lovely piano arrangement for vocal backup.

Lavender's Blue, the Cinderella song lyrics

The song that Cinderella sings in the attic, which helps the prince to rescue her!

An easy melody to sing, this piano arrangement makes the melody sound elegant.

Several keys are available.

Loch Lomond lyrics and sheet music for piano and singers

Loch Lomond lyrics and chords

This is is beautiful traditional song from Scotland.

A sad love song, with a battle reference.

Guitar tabs on this page, as well as a super-easy beginner arrangement, and a lovely piano accompaniment for vocalists.

Louie Louie sheet music for piano - teach the three main chords with this song/exercise.

Louie Louie sheet music for piano

This sheet is showing the arrangement with chord INVERSIONS, which require SKILL.

A sheet with the root position chords, however, is what I start students with in the Louie Louie Wannabe exercises (that is also on this page!).

Minka, a piano arrangement of this high-energy song from Ukraine or Russia

Minka - easy piano songs!

Several arrangements here.

A couple using blocked chords, and a couple using broken chords.

Did you know there are several melodies for this energetic tune?

Check them out!

The Minstrel Boy sheet music for piano and voice

The Minstrel Boy

From Ireland, this is a moving patriotic song.

Very lovely - you may find a tear in your eye.

The Moldau - a piano arrangement of the symphony piece

The Moldau

A short version of this pretty arrangement.

Not just a lovely, if  repetitious left hand pattern - there are some unexpected notes in the left hand.

A long and full arrangement for piano of the main theme from The Moldau by Smetana

The Moldau

This is a much longer arrangement of this beautiful music by Smetana.

It begins with the famous "trickling streams of water" theme.

Titanic piano music

My Heart Will Go On, from Titanic

The famous song that stayed popular FOREVER.

It is STILL a major hit, especially with young girls and their parents!

O Susannah piano sheet music

O Susanna

This is a fun song for kids, with silly words.

Once I Had a Sweetheart, folk sheet music for piano and voice

Once I Had a Sweetheart, Vocal/Piano

A little-known folk tune with a sad story, and a pretty melody.

Interesting chords...

The Princess Bride piano music

Princess Bride - "Once Upon a Time...Storybook Love"

This is the real thing!

Shown here is page two of the arrangement, with a watermark on the image.

This is a beautiful and satisfying arrangement, suitable for students who are beginning to understand chord inversions, and who can play extended broken chords in the left hand.

Red River Valley song for piano

Red River Valley

A sweet song, just a bit melancholy, with a definite feeling of cowboy country.

Japanese song Sakura

Sakura

A lovely Japanese folk song.

Apparently it means, "Cherry tree," or "Cherry blossoms."

Song Secret Garden

Secret Garden

Choose an arrangement in Am or in the key of Bm - this pretty song from the 1993 movie The Secret Garden is not to be missed!

Folk song "She Moved Through the Fair"

She Moved Through the Fair

A vocal piece with a piano accompaniment made of beautiful long broken chords.

Sleepsong for piano and voice

Sleepsong, by Secret Garden

This beautiful copyrighted song is now available in a piano arrangement plus lead sheet!  It is nine pages in all.

Don't miss this amazing song.

The Snowman theme music

"The Snowman" theme Walking in the Air

An unusually pretty and sparkling piece, with energy and drive.  From the short movie "The Snowman."

Hear this piano arrangement in a video!

Sea chantey "Spanish Ladies" piano music

Spanish Ladies

Exciting lyrics and an energetic melody make this a FUN song to sing!


What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor music

What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?

This song has a driving rhythm, and not too many difficulties.

Alternate lyrics, for those who prefer not to sing about drunken sailors!

Irish song piano music

White, Orange and Green free Irish sheet music

One of my favorite songs of all time. 

A patriotic song about a young girl who bravely faces an enemy soldier.

Interested in songs from the Bible for your students or church?  Check out my other website, SingTheBibleStory.com!

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The Story of Esther - a Bible opera!

Queen Esther in the Bible

This beautiful song book for piano & voice "Esther, For Such a Time as This",  available as a digital downloadtells the riveting story of the time when  Jews in ancient Persia faced a foe named Haman, and how a  brave young queen risked her life to save her people.

A good choice for a singing story-teller, an operatic group, a short theater production, or a class of children!

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Just the Black Keys, a piano song book for young beginners.

Just the Black Keys

This book is available as a digital download  from this site.  Visit this page to see some free examples from the book.

It is also available from Amazon as a paperback!

This is the perfect easy start for little pianists.

And when they start reading white-key notes on the staff, this is a fun easy resource to say each week, "Choose a new black-key song at home this week and figure it out to show me next lesson!"  They will be spending more time at the piano.

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With a red cap on his head and a sack of tools slung over his shoulder, Tonsta seems to meet people in distress wherever he goes.

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About the Author

Dana Thynes

Hi, I'm Dana!  (Say that like "Anna".)  I'm the owner of Music-for-Music-Teachers.com, and a newer site, SingTheBibleStory.com.

Like some of you, I've been playing the piano since early childhood, and have added a few other instruments along the way, plus an interest in arranging and composing music.

You can find out more about me and the reason for this website at my About Me page.